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Elon Musk

Elon Musk and Amy Nelson

When CEOs cry: The Riveter’s Amy Nelson and Elon Musk weigh in on business stress

After Tesla CEO Elon Musk got emotional during a market-moving interview this month, Amy Nelson, CEO and founder of The Riveter,… Read More

Elon Musk

Go private? Never mind: Elon Musk says Tesla will remain a public company

After more than two weeks of discussions, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says feedback from shareholders and experts has convinced him… Read More

Musk and Brownlee

A low-cost Tesla car? Elon Musk talks about tech (without turmoil) on YouTube

On the heels of Elon Musk’s angst-filled, market-moving interview with The New York Times, YouTube techie Marques Brownlee offered up… Read More

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Tesla stock slumps after Elon Musk admits he’s having most difficult year of his career

When Tesla CEO Elon Musk chokes up, Tesla’s stock price gets depressed as well. The link between public perceptions of… Read More

TLDR: Amazon wants to expand presence in movie biz, Boring Co. plans high-speed transit under Dodger Stadium, Toronto’s innovation district

Today’s featured stories Amazon movie theaters? Tech giant vying to acquire Landmark chain, report says Elon Musk’s Boring Company takes… Read More

Dugout Loop terminus

Elon Musk’s Boring Company takes a swing at building Dugout Loop to Dodger Stadium

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company, is getting the go-ahead sign on a project to build a… Read More

TLDR: Inside Horizon Air’s stolen plane, Saudi Arabia wants Elon Musk to take Tesla private, Russell Wilson nerds out on real estate

Today’s featured stories Inside the stolen passenger plane: ‘I played video games before, so I know what I’m doing, a… Read More

Elon Musk, Semi and Roadster

Elon Musk names Saudis as principal funders for Tesla stock privatization plan

When Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had “funding secured” for a plan to take the company private, he was… Read More

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Oh, wow, man! Elon Musk’s tweets about taking Tesla private spark a stock spike

Tesla’s stock shot up sharply today after the company’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla… Read More

Tesla cars

Despite loss, Tesla’s second-quarter report boosts stock (and Elon Musk mellows out)

Tesla reported a larger loss per share than expected in the second quarter, but there was more revenue and less… Read More

Elon Musk and Mitchell Frimodt

WARR wins Hyperloop III pod races — and University of Washington raises its profile

Germany’s WARR Hyperloop team made it to the winner’s circle again today in the latest running of Elon Musk’s university-level… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

Flint water samples

Tech titan Elon Musk’s latest cause: Checking for unsafe water in Flint, Mich.

Elon Musk didn’t even wait to get back from his Asia trip to start a new philanthropic campaign, this time… Read More

Escape pod testing

Tested for Thailand, SpaceX’s makeshift mini-sub could serve as space escape pod

The mini-submarine created by SpaceX engineers may not play a role in the crisis it was designed for — the Thai… Read More

Rescuers in Thai cave complex

Elon Musk sends Boring Company and SpaceX experts to Thai cave rescue effort

Billionaire techie Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers from SpaceX and the Boring Company to help with the… Read More

Elon Musk: Chicago express tunnel could be started in 4 months, finished in 3 years

News Brief: Mark this down for later: Tech billionaire Elon Musk says the Boring Company could begin work on the… Read More

TLDR: Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Chicago transit system, housing development as a service, Death Cab sings about Amazon

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Boring Company transit tunnels

Elon Musk’s Boring Company wins the nod from Chicago for airport express link

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Boring Company is getting the go-ahead to build a multibillion-dollar express transit system between downtown Chicago… Read More

Elon Musk, Semi and Roadster

Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability

Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the… Read More

Flame on! Elon Musk says Boring Company delivers its first ‘Not-a-Flamethrower’

Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk showed off pictures of the Boring Company’s first commercial flamethrowers being distributed to lines of… Read More

TLDR: Elon Musk gets emotional at Tesla’s shareholder meeting, Microsoft’s underwater data center, Amazon’s $200 Echo Look

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Elon Musk

Tesla turns back challenges at annual meeting, and Elon Musk bares his soul

Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic… Read More

Starman Tesla Roadster and Malala

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Malala Yousafzai tweet cute over ClickHole’s Starman parody

More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed… Read More

Starlink satellite deployment

SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says

It’s been three months since SpaceX launched the first prototype satellites for its Starlink broadband internet network, and there’s been… Read More

Starman game

Control Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starman’ in quest to blow up Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in video game

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to… Read More

Elon Musk

Elon Musk berates media critics and vows to create ‘Pravda’ news rating website

Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed… Read More

Elon Musk and Steve Davis

L.A. tunnel rides for $1: Six takeaways from Elon Musk’s Boring Company talk

If billionaire Elon Musk’s tunnel vision comes to pass, travelers will be able to zip beneath Los Angeles through an… Read More

Tunnel pod

Elon Musk sweetens the pitch for his tunnel vision with space travel (and candy)

Billionaire Elon Musk is talking up his tunnel-boring vision at a public forum in Los Angeles tonight, and hinting that… Read More

Boring Company tunnel

Elon Musk says Boring Company could soon give ‘free rides’ through L.A. tunnel

The details may be fuzzy, but billionaire Elon Musk says he’s aiming to open the Boring Company’s first test tunnel… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla

Tesla stock goes through twists and turns as analysts focus on Model 3 car outlook

Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon… Read More

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